Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 131

I was there, I drank mead and wine: it flowed up to my beard, but it never entered my mouth.

Who acts: I, wine · What happens: be, drink, flow up, not enter · To what, where: mead, mouth

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 there	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 drank	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drank	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wine	cc
9	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mead	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 flowed	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flowed	nsubj
12	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drank	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 flowed	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 beard	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 entered	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 entered	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entered	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 entered	advmod
21	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flowed	advcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entered	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		there property	tree rules
2	drink	past	I	mead and wine		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient
3	flow up	past	wine		to my beard	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not enter	past	wine	my mouth		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 131